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KCNA Blasts Some Congressmen for Standing in Way of Six-Party Talks

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, October 12 (KCNA) -- Some lawmakers from the Republican Party of the United States recently introduced a bill to Congress urging the U.S. not to de-list the DPRK as a sponsor of terrorism.
    Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, member of the House of Representatives, who sponsored the bill, put up in the bill such unreasonable conditionalities as putting an end to cooperation in the field of development of banned military equipment and cooperation in the nuclear field with Syria, insisting that the U.S. policy toward the DPRK should not be based on the hope that it would honor its commitments but based on its actual performance.
    This is nothing but reckless remarks beclouding the prospect of the talks as they are intended to stem the trend of the times toward detente over the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula and put a brake on the process to advance the six-party talks and warm up the DPRK-U.S. relations.
    The DPRK cannot overlook the brazen-faced remarks made by the U.S. chief executive against his dialogue partner on the international arena, timed to coincide with the introduction of the above-said bill by U.S. conservative hard-liners.
    He, addressing the UN General Assembly on Sept. 25, went so reckless as to mention some countries including the DPRK and call them "brutal regimes".
    The renewed accusation made by him against the DPRK was nothing but a foolish ploy to tarnish the DPRK's dignity and authority rising on the international arena as the days go by, which the servicepersons and people of the DPRK will never tolerate.
    When judging this as the viewpoint of the U.S. chief executive, one can hardly guess the ever-changing U.S. view on the DPRK and talk about the bilateral confidence, the key to making progress at the six-party talks and the development of the bilateral relations.
    Confidence building is vitally required by the countries participating in the six-party talks as the negotiated settlement of the nuclear issue is a very sensitive political issue related to peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and the Asia-Pacific region.
    It is by no means fortuitous that the international community is expressing concern and uneasiness about the moves being taken by the U.S. conservative hard-liners at a time when the six-party talks are progressing and the DPRK-U.S. relations are developing at a certain level.
    They invented various pretexts to lay hurdles in the way of the talks whenever there was some progress in them in the past.
    A lot of time has been wasted since the start of the talks. This was entirely attributable to the wrong view of the U.S. on the DPRK.
    The U.S. would be well advised to pay attention to and ponder over the factors of adversely affecting the progress at the talks and the settlement of the nuclear issue and be consistent in its policy toward the DPRK, though belatedly.